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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | This new edition of the most complete handbook for chemical and process engineers incorporates the latest information for engineers and practitioners who depend on it as a working tool. New material explores the recent trends and updates of gas treating and fractionator computer solutions analysis. Substantial additions to this edition include a new section on gasification that reflects the many new trends and techniques in the field and a treatment on compressible fluid flow.
This convenient volume provides engineers with hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts, and calculations to quickly and accurately solve day-to-day design, operations, and equipment problems. Here, in a compact, easy-to-use format, are practical tips, handy formulas, correlations, curves, charts, tables, and shortcut methods that will save engineers valuable time and effort.
* The standard handbook for chemical and process engineers
* All new material on pinch point analysis on networks of heat exchangers and updates on gas treating in process design and heat transfer
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Carl R. Branan | | Paperback: | 496 pages | | Publisher: | Gulf Professional Publishing | | Publication Date: | August 30, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0750678569 | | Product Length: | 10.88 inches | | Product Width: | 8.46 inches | | Product Height: | 0.9 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.51 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.79 inches | | Package Width: | 8.43 inches | | Package Height: | 1.02 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.56 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Outstanding compilation Jun 07, 2000
By Stephen M. Hall
This is a 400+ page perfect-bound book, 8-1/2 x 11 inch formt, packed with tips and short cuts for practicing chemical engineers. Branan has essentially scoured the popular press (e.g, Chemical Engineering Magazine, Hydrocarbon Processing, etc.) for articles and data. He's captured that data and organized it into his volume. In so doing, he omits most of the explanatory text and derivations. Instead, he prints the actual data, formulas, recommendations, and definitions (and, of course, references to the source material). This makes for a highly accessible book with tremendous practical value.There are four main sections: 1) equipment design, 2) process design, 3) plant design, and 4) operations. For example, one of the chapters within plant design is called "Safety." It contains the following parts: - Estimating LEL and Flash (provides method for estimating LEL given the stoichiometry of combustion and a vapor pressure curve) - Tank Blanketing (method for determining inert gas requirements for breathing losses and working losses; includes data maps of the US) - Equipment Purging (for dilution, pressure-cycle, and vacuum-cycle purging) - Static Charge from Fluid Flow (reprint of an article from Hydrocarbon Processing) - Mixture Flammability (method and examples for estimating) - Relief Manifolds (describes method adopted by API) In short, if you are practicing process engineering for plant design or maintenance, you should have this book.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
A MUST HAVE books for Chemical Engineers Oct 07, 2000
By Andrew M. Ward
"award53"
This is one of the few MUST HAVE books for Chemical Engineers doing process engineering. When I travel (for work) I always take "Transport Phenomena" (aka BSL), The GPA Databook and "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers". Rules of Thumb... is a great reference for process design and trouble shooting field problems. A Practical Tip: The best thing to do with "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers" is to carefuly remove the binding and put it into a 3-hole notebook (e.g., the GPA databook) and then file all the classic process design articles with the appropriate chapters.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
From an Industrial Practitioner - This is an Excellent Quick Reference Jul 11, 2006
By David De Sousa
"The Automation and Control Guy"
This book is an excellent and priceless reference on Process Equipment Fundamentals and Quick Calculations for any engineer or practitioner working in the process industries. I am an Electronic Engineer, but I have been working for the last 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Control Engineer for the Oil & Gas Industry. As a result I have been involved with Chemical Engineering issues in a day to day basic.
I have found this book to be an excellent tool aid to analyze operational problems that affect process performance.
Chemical engineers working in operations and design for the process industries will find this book most useful.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Any practicing Chemical Engineer must have this book May 31, 2008
By Bulldog Engineer
"Bully"
This book is a work horse. It is extremly practical and to the point. Important concepts and design equations are laid out in a concise and easy to read format. This book noteworthy for the depth of the material covered and the incredibly succint delivery of that information.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Useful but read the fine print Jun 10, 2007
By Dirk J. Willard
"Dirk Willard"
This reference is highly useful for consulting work. It has its limits. A true rule-of-thumb book for chemical engineers would require volumes so I would say the author did well, hence the 5 stars. A good example of the limits of this book are what he does with knock-out pots. He limits his presentation to reflux drums instead of expanding his study to KO pots in general. The section on reflux drums is difficult to use because the tables presented for liquid holding times is difficult to understand, let alone use. The reader would be tempted to use this method for KO pots unless he sees the fine print in the corner of the page. Look for these caveates.
The index is good, which is critical for such a reference. If I had a choice between buying Hicks or Branan, it would be a hard choice. I would probably advise the cheaper book, Branan. Besides, Hicks, "Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations," covers a broad range of engineering calculations. Branan is more focused on chemical engineering. It is unfortunate that it is not expanded to cover more of the field.
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